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Chinese wanderers remind us of the global threats to elephants
Chinese elephants have PETER FROST worrying about the future for the world’s largest land-based mammal
A migrating herd of elephants rests near the Xinyang Township in the Jinning District of Kunming city of southwestern China's Yunnan Province, on June 7, 2021
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CHINA is not famous for its elephants — but the famed wandering herd have been dominating animal media headlines for some while.
The whole herd of 15 animals originally left a wildlife reserve in the south-west of Yunnan province more than a year ago. They trekked over 300 miles (500km) north, arriving at the outskirts of the provincial capital of Kunming.
Last week the elephants were on the move again, heading south-west while a male who broke from the herd is 10 miles (16km) away, still on the outskirts of Kunming.
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